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This is one that everyone will want, but not everyone has just yet – read on! Discovery Education streaming videos are now available in Flash! The catch is that it is not available unless your district DE administrator has requested it. So what are you waiting for? Get your DE administrator to call 1-800-323-9084 to

Discovery Education has made quite a few changes recently to Discovery streaming, as some of you may already be aware. I’m sure you have a lot of questions. You are in luck! Discovery Education is going to be hosting three webinars tomorrow (Thursday, June 26) for anyone who is interested in learning more. You can

I’m not sure about everyone out there reading this, but I know that for me, the beginning of my exciting experiences with Discovery Education started with a little product called unitedstreaming. I was a new teacher and hungry for any help I could get in filling up my block schedule. The teacher I was replacing

The national coordinators for the Discovery Educator Network have created a short survey that they will use to identify trends and to help them to continue to provide you with up to date, leading-edge services. If you have minute in your busy day, please click on the link below to complete this very quick multiple

As many of you know, the Discovery Education unitedstreaming Product Development team hosted a Webinar a few days ago to allow users from across the country to share comments and suggestions. I hope you enjoyed the opportunity to provide feedback and guidance related to unitedstreaming. Kim Smith, our Vice President of Product Development, was so

Since the new version of unitedstreaming went live in June, teachers have been making great use of all of the new features and added resources that are available on the site. Some of these new features grew from ideas put forth by the Discovery Education Product Development team, but many of the improvements are a

Have you noticed the new search feature on the NEW unitedstreaming site? Are you aware of all it can do. You might consider it an advanced filtering system for the purposes of this post I am going to refer to it as the ability to "Drill Down" because it allows you to delve into the

The new unitedstreaming has another tool in its arsenal. A new feature called the Writing Prompt Builder joins two other very popular tools in the Teacher Center—the Quiz Builder and the Assignment Builder. With this tool, you can create your own original writing prompts with embedded images from the unitedstreaming image library or search for

The NEW unitedstreaming is here and it’s AMAZING!!! To celebrate this launch and to help prepare many of you for staff development this summer, please try to attend either a webinar or event (if it’s in your area). Stay tuned for more events! LAUNCH PARTIES Tuesday, June 13 – The NEW unitedstreaming Launch Party Panera

Have you noticed the new search feature on the new unitedstreaming site? Are you aware of all that it can do? You might consider it an advanced filtering system because it gives you the ability to ‘drill down” into the depths of the unitedstreaming libraries to find all of the resources you need for your

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One of my least favorite trends in education is hatin’ on PowerPoint. Visual presentation in and of itself isn’t the problem! A quick glance of Google search results for “PowerPoint meme” sums up the anti-PowerPoint narrative sweeping the web: PowerPoints can be dreadfully boring, and relying solely on teacher-centered instruction is problematic. That being

Many of you may have realized, to your chagrin, that the Xtranormal site has been shut down as of July 31st. I searched for alternatives and found Digital Films . I have only been playing around with it for a few hours, but have not noticed a feature that allows characters to speak typed text

I pride myself on my lectures. I was voted “Best Lecturer” in the 2013 Sherwood High School yearbook. I’ve been told that my lectures are easily understood, engaging, interactive with plenty of student discourse–and I’m pretty darn funny! My students consistently scored very well on the Advanced Placement U.S. history exam. So what’s the issue? Lecturing works.